Monday, January 31, 2011

I’m so glad to share comments on my decade old-speech about the ongoing process of shift in our collective human consciousness, which i embedded in my blog yesterday (read). I took extra pains to help that blog posting reach many computers (more than my usual reach) and many of my friends must have forwarded it on, after bothering first to read it. And those who also did may also have felt rewarded, like my friends Contessa and Paula,

Contessa Miller (US-based Facebook Friend of Sing Out 2011): I just read your latest blog. It is truly fantastic. "The Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" is one of my all-time favorites. I have shared it many times. Your discussion of our times in relation to the Old Testament and Christ Consciousness that came later provide exceptional analogies. The message in this blog is very uplifting. Thank you. I hope many people take the time to read it. They deserve to give themselves a real treat.

Atty. Paula Aberasturi (a colleague in the Philippine environment conservation movement, via test message after reading my decade-old speech in the blog): Read your article last night.Your speech rings even more true today. I also feel that humanity is awakening to a new heart consciousness.

To Contessa, I responded, thus: “Let's have that song sung out together this year by many, many lungs, by many, many hearts, in many groups in localities round the world, uplifting one another's consciousness in its holistic embracive spirit. if something like that gets done, the ambitious call for SING OUT 2011 shall not have been in vain. thanks so much again, Contessa! And keep on spreading the word about these, including Egypt!”

And to Paula: “Thanx 4 that, Paula! Hooray for the heart-conscious lawyer, the only helpful type for the new times! ü!”

Are more reactions coming in? Well, if many have made time to read it and forward it to more of their own friends, who knows...?

Sunday, January 30, 2011

(Speech delivered by Ed Aurelio C. Reyes before the First Lambat-Liwanag Conference on the 15 Empowering Paradigms, held at the UST Main Library Bldg., Manila, Philippines on October 26, 2001):

Let’s Welcome & Help Hasten

the Sunrise of Enlightenment

Harmony and understanding,

Sympathy and trust abounding.

No more falsehoods or derisions—

Golden living dreams of vision,

Mystic crystal revelation,

And the mind’s true liberation…

I first came across these words almost 40 years ago inthe happy refrain of the song, Age of Aquarius, which described the period then of the 60s as a dawning, the dawning of a new age for Humankind.Now, almost four decades later, are well into that age?

I stand before you once again (my second time in this Conference today), this time to represent Dr. Mina Ramirez, President of the Asian Social Institute where I have been teaching (in the Applied Cosmic Anthropology program) since last year, because she could not come to be with us here physically. ASI was founded a few years before the song Age of Aquarius became popular, and I am proud to say that through all the decades since that time, ASI has been resonating qith this dawning, even contributing to the hastening of this dawning.The role assigned to ASI this afternoon is thus appropriate: to challenge us all to do the same in the coming years and decades.

It may be difficult for the youth of today to even imagine life at the time that song was popular – no computers, no Internet, no cellphones or texting, no faxes, and no cable TV (And may we add— no need for bottled drinking water, no flash floods, no red tide, no ozone hole, no…)Things have really changed. And all that change did not happen in just a few years.It’s part of the movement of history that is as slow as the creeping of the glaciers but also as powerful as the glaciers that have redesigned entire mountain ranges.This is the gradual dawning of the glorious sunshine for us to let in so it could chase away darkness and shorten all shadows in our lives.

There definitely has been this dawning of a new human consciousness that loves all (of) life, prefers celebration to competition, chooses appreciation before intellectualization, consciously breathes in the divine spirit, earnestly stands for honesty, mutual respect and equality, democracy, pluralism, gender harmony, intergenerational responsibility, deep ecology, and the synergy that is dynamically based on healthy diversities among species, among races, and among cultural or belief-based groupings. Such synergy now confronts, for example, the “millennium monster” that is globalized greed.People all over the world have seen through the exploitative designs of the World Trade Organization (WTO), created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was once quite prophetically described as “The Ten Commandments of the Golden Calf.”

All over the world, people coming from various races are getting spiritually magnetized by kindred frames of mind and action that empower and not shackle, frames of mind that unite people instead of turning them against one another, paradigms that would tear down walls and build bridges.

People have started, in the words of a poem-prayer Earth Synergy, to “stand in reverence before the rest of the bio-diverse citizens and elements of our living planet Gaia, to take full responsibility for past and present environmental destruction, and to lovingly commit a conscious synergy of efforts to rescue and heal, conserve and exalt our Mother Earth.”The poem (now translated into a dozen or so languages) calls this “a giant leap for Humankind,” not towards the moon or anywhere else in the “outer space,” but “right back to the bosom of our home planet.”This would be a strong metaphor for every human to start “going home” to oneself, and rediscovering one’s real individual and collective identity.

The development of consciousness of the human race has come a long way from the command regimentation that stressed faith and righteous behavior (Old Testament) while downplaying comprehension and free will.We have had more than two thousand years of enhanced free will and the admonition to love one another (message of the Christ), where the beginnings of comprehension (physics and other natural sciences) completely sidelined spiritual faith as by then misrepresented by dogmas of divisive religions.Through this period, the use of free will was often leading to disastrous consequences of intolerance and bigotry, oppression and exploitation, greed and tyranny.

And we are now gradually moving into a new period where human consciousness would really blossom in unconditional love and unconditional peace.We will fully be enjoying free will but matured enough, after centuries of experiential education, to freely choose love and synergy over alienation, separation and antagonism.Faith will still be there but no longer blind.Individual human dignity will be there but no longer as separative ego.Comprehension will be there, well beyond conventional (Newtonian) physics, but intellectualization will be underpinned by love, honest humility and spiritual discernment.Righteousness will be there in each of us but based on maturity and no longer externally commanded.

The conscious synergy of Humankind and of all Creation will emerge, a real and embracive unity, no longer an artificial and exclusive one.That will be the real age of the full Pentecost, wherea fast-increasing number of people, not just a dozen apostles, will now feel the tongues of fire lighting up their souls from within, souls that would reach out to embrace one another and draw in more and more people into their informal families.

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.I hope someday you will join us.And the world wil live as one!But you cannot say that to me in all earnestness.That was more appropriately addressed to Lennon of those days, not to me or to ASI or to groups like SanibLakas Foundation or Lambat-Liwanag Network of today. We all have reason to declare having joined Lennon in his dream, and that more people are joining up with all the rest.And we can all say, or rather sing with more feeling than we or our parents ever sand in the 60s—the Age of Aquarius has already dawned.This bright sunrise of enlightenment for real peace and real love has come!

The empowering paradigms are seeds of light. (see enumeration.) They resonate with the innermost whispers of our spirit.They are seeds of light that we can gather to plant deep within our hearts and minds, in all our talk, in all our walk of all our talk, and plant in heart-minds of many others.Are we ready to pledge upon our honor to help gather, spread and cast far and wide these seeds of light?Are we all ready to make extra efforts to contribute to the hastening of this glorious sunrise in the history of Humankind?

Are we ready to make the commitment on that Panata in your kits that I had earlier asked you to read immediately?Are you?I’m almost sure I already know your answer, and so, slightly ahead of hearing your response to this challenge, let me say this…

Congratulations!

(In the minutes that followed, the more than 50 participants in the Conference stood up to recite in unison the pledge to help develop, share and apply the 15 Empowering Paradigms.)

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

..Please listen to the song Cruel War, sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, as you read my article below. Click at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fto9ji994JY, then press at the Facebook or e-mail tab at the top or the bottom of this screen, and then at the link back to this blog. As you will soon realize, the song doesn't sing about much cruelty, as the unspoken prayer below does!.A MULTIPLICITY of deep friendships among people belonging to differing nationalities has been pointed out as a powerful deterrent against wars breaking out between those nations.This is because deep friendships are bonds not quite easily severed in times of misunderstnding and anger. Friends usually have a rich trove of patience and understanding for each other, along with the predisposition to be so forgiving, when it comes to annoying or even downright improper behavior on the part of one another.

Among parties of normal maturity, the longevity of a friendship already forged translates into the strength of reluctance to end that friendship altogether and go into a fullscale quarrel, which is what war inevitably becomes with its intentions of mutual annihilation.

Such longevity and depths of friendship are more practically attainable in circumstances where nationals of one country become long-term or medium-term visitors in another country, freely socialize with their hosts, and often become their bosom friends in relaxed peaceful circumstances. It is also in such circumstances where beyond simple friendships romantic relationships and even stable inter-nationality marriages get developed.

As travels between countries become ever easier and less expensive, there would be bigger numbers of foreign visitors in each of a pair of countries, mostly for purposes of tourism or cultural exchange, business and commerce, education or training, and also employment.

While foreign visitors are there in another country, they are therefore away from their respective homelands and are called “expatriates” or, for short, “expats.” And visitors and hosts often get endeared to one another.

Seldom if ever would people bonded in deep friendships would support a war- orientented self-righteous prayer that was illustrated a little more than a century ago by American satirical writer Samuel Clemens of Tom Sawyer fame, more popularly known as Mark Twain.

Wrote Twain:

IT WAS A TIME of great and exalting excitement.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety’s sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

Sunday morning came — next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams — visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory!

With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.

The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation

“God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!” Then came the “long” prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory —

An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher’s side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, “Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!”

The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside — which the startled minister did — and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:

“I come from the Throne — bearing a message from Almighty God!” The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. “He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import — that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of — except he pause and think.

“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this — keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! Lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor’s crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.

“You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words:

‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The "whole" of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory—'must' follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!

“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, light their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

(After a pause…) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!” It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.

[Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is said to have dictated this “War Prayer” around 1904-05; it was rejected by his publisher, and was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts. It was first published in 1923 in Albert Bigelow Paine’s anthology, Europe and Elsewhere. The story is in response to a particular war, namely the Philippine- American War, which Twain was staunchly opposing. See Jim Zwick’s page Mark Twain on the Philippines for more of Twain’s writings on the subject. Transcribed by Steven Orso .]

From my viewpoint as a Filipino, I cannot but marvel at the multitudes of opportunity afforded us to build multi-nationality friendships between my compatriots and the people of other nationalities, with the multitudes of expatriates – foreigners now living in our country and Filipinos now living in theirs.

If even just half of all such opportunities were to be fully utilized in building deep friendships between the visitors and their hosts, all such friendships expanding, rippling off larger and larger, and criscrossing the world would foster enough sincere mutual understanding and goodwill among peoples to deter and automaticaly reject as grossly insane the raging of hundreds of wars big and small. This would go a long, long way in our search for oneness of Humanity manifesting concretely in our own lives of peace, of human development and harmony, of shared innate divinity.

I dare shout out loud to ask us all, as i really want to receive categorical answers: Why, indeed, not???! Is it because we don't really mind trying to engage God in double-talk of futile hypocrity when we fervently pray for war victory?

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

........Before you start reading this Human Oneness statement issued on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the United Nations, let's set up some background music. Click at this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pluDQ7L7Kbc. Then press at the Blogger tab at the very top or very bottom of the monitor screen, so you can read on, as a well-known song continues to play in the background...........Experience two distinct but intimately related messages simultanously, and try to relate the words, the thoughts, the feelings!!! Share them and my Facebook message with many other thinking minds and feeling hearts...

SYCONE is Synergy in Conscious Oneness

When We Have Evolved Enough

To Really Live Our Oneness,

Then We Shall Have Become

Fully Human!

When we have learned to view the world, with both eyes , then we can finally learn to respect, value and combine a plurality of varied viewpoints. With only one viewpoint, we see the world flat, but with both eyes seeing differently we see the world in its three-dimensional beauty.

When we have finally learned to emulate the native Americans -- and other people of the earth -- then we might humbly desist from claiming to know another's life until after we have walked a mile in that one's moccasins. We can expand human capability to learn from one another's life experience, including our capability for full compassion and wisdom about life on earth. In that way we might be able to make decisions beneficial to the lives of our fellow humans.

When we have finally discovered that our individual selves go well beyond our skin, we can finally discern as "at least possible" our deep unconditional connectedness, and we will draw ever closer to knowing fully well our oneness in spirit.

When we have finally started heeding the Prophet Isaiah's call to "beat (our) swords into ploughshares and (our) spears into pruning hooks," we can finally see human society evolved past the violent hunting stage of development that was centered on weapons, and well into the peaceful stage of agriculture where ploughshares mattered much more. Then we can move on to validate with enough collective maturity all our technologies and knowledge and make them fully useful in the service of the human and other species.

When we have finally learned to strongly uphold the discernment that warriors on both contending sides are really on one side, multitudes will no longer goad their respective chosen sides to hate the other side, or even allow themselves to do the same. We will thus stop energizing wars, violence, and hatred with the separative passions transmitted together from within our hearts.

When we have finally ceased all mind-sets and practices that restrict human development and erect walls of division among people, we can finally begin to experience and enjoy full human development and real human harmony, where human development results in more human harmony, and where human harmony spurs more human development.

When we have finally discovered our oneness in receiving our sustenance from the unified Lifeweb of Nature, we can at last shatter the powerful illusions of scarcity from which all greed ultimately comes, and start enjoying together the reality of abundance for every single one's need.

When we have finally learned to stand together as one human race before the rest of the bio-diverse citizens and elements of our living planet Gaia, to take full responsibility for past and present environmental destruction, and to lovingly commit a conscious synergy of efforts, we can actually rescue and heal, conserve and exalt, our planet and insure our collective survival.

Today, October 24, 2007, the 62nd anniversary of the United Nations, we of Sycone International, pursuing the attainment of Synergy in Conscious Oneness ("sycone"), solemnly salute the United Nations with all its conferential bodies and service instrumentalities, the United Religions Initiative with all its coordinative bodies and cooperating circles around the world, Byakko and all the participants in its symphonies of prayers for peace, the Humanist Movement all over the world, as well as all of the spiritually-unified multitudes of other similar international, national and local organizations, instrumentalities and actions of all groupings and individuals of humans performing their respective roles of choice and ability in moving Humankind forward to the next stage of evolution, the stage of Conscious Oneness and Real Peace.

We also seek help from all willing hearts and hands in various continents, countries and localities to help us sow far and wide the seeds of light of Sycone, for the current imperative of Human Evolution – the attainment of the collective state of Conscious Oneness, knowing and living the truth that "The Humanity of All is One."

(Sgd.) Ed Aurelio C. Reyes, and(Sgd.) Donald D. Goertzen

Initiators and Spokespersons, Sycone International

Makati, Philippines

October 24, 2007

( 62nd Founding Anniversary of the United Nations )

[ SYCONE Humanity's lead initiator, Ed Aurelio C. Reyes, is a writer, educator and active advocate on many themes of the people, author of over 30 books on various topics (these are catalogued in http://bookmakers-phils.8m.net), including Biped on the Blue Ball (http://love-life.faithweb.com/biped.htm), which first came out on Earth Day 1990, and copies of which were distributed among delegates from some 60 countries at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. His poem/prayer for Earth Synergy, titled, A Giant Leap for Humankind (read in http://love-life.faithweb.com/poem-eng.htm), written in 1999 was translated into 15 various languages of Asia, Europe and America by the time of Earth Day 2000, and various versions of a solemn ceremony he created around this poem, titled “Handshakes & Hugs for Earth Synergy” were reported to have been held in at least six countries in just its first year (2000). Ding Reyes has headed the UN-mandated World Environment Day-Philippines network since 2000, and currently holds the position of Secretary-General. He is scheduled to speak next week at the United Nations Development Programme regional workshop conference on good practices in the pursuit of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ding’s close-in partner in the Sycone International project is Don Goertzen, an American citizen and long-term resident of the Philippines, who is an educational administrator, writer, and former development worker. A third team player is Rev. Olof Lindstroem, a Swedish pastor who is deeply involved in social development projects in various parts of the Philippines and has kept himself intimately in touch with the personal lives of many Filipinos. As of November 1, 2007, Indonesian development worker Abdurrahman Syebubakar, who works with UNDP, joined the Sycone International core team. ]

"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Isaiah II (King James Version)[Photo shows figure at the UN Headquarters in New York]

…and posted this announcement in his status and in the walls of the FB friends of the SingOut Lovepeacejoy FB account and of his personal account:

“WELCOME JOEY AYALA! Good news to all! Popular Filipino singer-composer Joey Ayala has joined the "Sing-Out 2011" global initiative by offering his song in English for building a culture Peace by openness, titled, "Open Hands" which people everywhere would hopefully start learning soon and sing together in their own homes, plazas, offices, etc.in localities in many countries, especially in the PEACE-focused period (Set. 1 - Oct.31) and in recordings for wide cyber-propagation.”

Two FB friends of SingOut Lovepeacejoy, namely, Rafael PabloMolina Fernando of Subic Bay Freeport Zone and Rex Deveraturda of nearby Subic town in Zambales, supported with their own postings the above message of acknowledgement and gratitude.

While waiting for Joey’s response to the request for lyrics, Ding Reyes started trying to transcribe directly from listening to the Youtube-uploaded recording. Here's the result of that effort, with one line Ding marks as "unsure" with a question mark in parentheses.

Let's listen to the song to start familiarizing ourselves with it, sing along, and start learning to sing it out (especially in Sept and October 2011 when Sing Out 2011 focus will be on Peace) and start sharing is with many others.

Then bring back this blog on-screen by pressing at the "back" or leftward-arrow key to bring back this blog page. Look at these words now to see how the "Sing Out 2011" themes would replace the alternating purely-"Amen" lines. Reading on the blog and listening to the background, sing out loud for a dozen cycles (here are two such cycles)...

Try to get two or three other people to sing with you. That's it. You've started learning the song.Next, try teaching this song to some other people in your immediate circle... you may use the Youtube link.Love, Peace, Joy!! These are happy human ideals and the destiny of a further-evolved Humanity. Wouldn't we all say "Amen!" to that? Wouldn't we all singout "Amen!" to that? Sing Out "Amen!" in Twenty-Eleven!!!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

The SING-OUT 2011 Global Project

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Hi! I am Ed Aurelio “Ding” Reyes, initiator of a year-long project dubbed “SING-OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY! 2011.” After creating recently a FaceBook account dedicated to this project, I am inviting everyone of you to become a FaceBook Friend of SING-OUT 2011, and to help us spread the word (including updates) on how it is shaping up over the months of this year and to be active participants in this project aiming to contribute the best we can to the evolution of human consciousness to the state of Synergy from Conscious Oneness ("sycone," pronounced as "seek one.").This project as a campaign is an initiative of Sycone-Humanity, a member-organization of the Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas (Philippine Synergy Community), in cooperation with various individuals and entities in the Philippines and in other countries.

"SING-OUT 2011"seeks to cause an ever-growing number of family-based and friendship-based groups and circles to create, collate, share and frequently sing out together happy songs on fraternal LOVE, on real lasting PEACE, and on deep JOY, in their homes, schools, parks, offices, etc. in an ever-growing number of localities throughout the world starting in the year 2011.

The timetable for SING-OUT 2011 follows below:

January 1 - April 30:Widest introduction of the "SING-OUT 2011 project" as we can, and as it shapes up, to invite all who are reached to decide to participate in ways and to the extent that they freely choose. Further spreading the word (by forwarding its messages to many friends by various means) is one great way of participating throughout the year.(Note: We will suggest to the environmental conservation movement in the Philippines and in other countries to mobilize their members, communities and families to sing environmental advocacy songs together in their homes, parks, schools, and offices on Earth Day, April 22 (a Friday).

May 1 - June 30:First Period of singing out by all participating groups everywhere, with focus on the value of bringing out our happy voices together, to sing “of good things, not bad; of happy, not sad” not worrying "that it is not good enough for anyone else to hear.” (Note: May 2011 is commemoration month of the 45th anniversary of the SING-OUT Folk Song Festival staged by the Baguio International Club in May 1966.)

July 1 - August 31:Second Period, with all participating groups to focus on songs with universal human LOVE as theme.

September 1 - October 31:Third Period, with all the participating groups to focus on songs with real, lasting PEACE as theme. (Note: September is the World Peace Consciousness Month as declared by the United Nations.)

November 1 - December 31:Fourth Period, with all participating groups to focus on songs with deep, profound, widely shared JOY as theme.(Note: this period embraces joyful holidays of both the Christian and Muslim communities throughout the word.)

If you want you be more familiar with how the project has been shaping up in the past few weeks, covering various aspects, you may check out this set of earlier blog post in my personal blogsite, http://readdingz.blogspot.com which carries more background information:

P.S. After reading any or all of these blogs, please send to us your questions, suggestions, and all other comments you might want to make to help improve the project as it is now shaping up. Our email address is singout.lovepeacejoy2011@yahoo.com.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hi! I am Ed Aurelio “Ding” Reyes, initiator of a year-long project dubbed “SING-OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY! 2011.” After creating very recently a FaceBook account dedicated to this project, I am inviting everyone of you to become a FaceBook Friend of SING-OUT 2011, and to help us spread the word (including updates) on how it is shaping up over the months of this year and to be active participants in this project aiming to contribute the best we can to the evolution of human consciousness to the state of Synergy from Conscious Oneness ("sycone").

SING-OUT 2011 seeks tocause an ever-growing number of family-based and friendship-based groups and circles to create, collate, share and frequently sing out together happy songs on fraternal LOVE, on real lasting PEACE, and on deep JOY, in their homes, schools, parks, offices, etc. in an ever-growing number of localities throughout the world starting in the year 2011.

The timetable for SING-OUT 2011 follows:

January 1 - April 30-- Widest introduction of the SING-OUT 2011 project as we can, and as it shapes up, to invite all who are reached to decide to participate in the way and to the extent that they freely choose. Further spreading the word (by forwarding the messages to many friends by various means) is one great way of participating throughout the year.

May 1 - June 30 – First Period of singing out by all participating groups everywhere, with focus on the value of bringing out our happy voices together, to sing “of good things, not bad; of happy, not sad” not worrying if “it ain’t no good enough for anyone else to hear.” (Note: May 2011 is commemoration month of the 45th anniversary of the SING-OUT Folk Song Festival staged by the Baguio International Club in May 1966.)

July 1 - August 31 – Second Period, with all participating groups to focus on songs with universal human LOVE as theme.

September 1 - October 31 – Third Period, with all participating groups to focus on songs with real, lasting PEACE as theme. (Note: September is the World Peace Consciousness Month as declared by the United Nation.)

November 1 - December 31 – Fourth Period, with all participating groups to focus on songs with deep, profound, widely shared JOY as theme.(Note: this period embraces joyful holidays of both the Christian and Muslim communities throughout the word.)

I want you to be completely familiar with how the project has been shaping up in the past few weeks, covering various aspects. That’s why I am listing here the first set of blog postings on my personal blogsite http://readdingz.blogspot.com (with embedded links to earlier blogs) to give you the big picture of this project as it has so far evolved.

1. SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY

(Initial posting about the project idea, A very sketchy presentation.)

(Issuing the wide we call on family and friendship groups in homes, schools, offices, parks, etc. in various countries to create, collate, share, teach/learn, and sing out together songs on Love, Peace, Joy.)